The Grand Master of the Order, The Father of the Clan, The Seyed of the
Tarigeh, The Transcendent Jurist, His Holiness Seyed Shah Naimatullah
Wali. His glorified name, Seyed Naimatullah son of Abdullah, as His
Holiness himself in few verses stated that his corporeal genealogy
through twenty intermediaries reaches to the Holy Prophet Hazrat Rasul
(PBUH) and says:

Up to the point that says, my twentieth ancestor is the Messenger of God

It is obvious and not hidden

His blessed spiritual title Seyed Nour-e-din and his honorable
forefathers were resident in the city of Halab. His father came to Kich
and Makran from Halab and after residing in Makran for some time, got
married and was related through wedlock with the tribal khans of
Shabankareh of Fars and for this reason, departed for Kuhbanan of Kerman
and stayed there. The
birth of His Holiness Shah Naimatullah was in Kuhbanan in the year 731
Hijri (1331 AD) which is attributed to himself, who said: my date of
birth in Abjad numeric system is equivalent to “zale manqoot”.
His Holiness after being educated in external sciences by some
theologians and religious authorities such as Sheikh Shams-e-din Makki,
Seyed Jalal-e-din Kharazmi and Qazi Izad-e-din and Sheikh Rokn-e-din
Shirazi and having completed external excellences, was desirous of
attaining inner perfection and turned his face to the speech of the
friends of God. Wherever he would find signs of an illumined Master and
Sheikh, he would hasten towards them and travelled a lot in the arena of
search, underwent mortification and endured lots of suffering. His
Holiness after excursion in Iran journeyed to Turan (in Central Asia)
then and Arab countries and met and conversed with many great authorized
Sheikhs and eminent mystics of his time, such as Seyed Hussein Akhlati
in Egypt and Qutb-e-din Razi in Mecca and others. But meeting and
conversing with them, the visage of his purpose was not manifested till
in Holy Mecca, he met the honorable, eminence of His Holiness Sheikh
Abdullah Yafe’ie and in serving him attained his purpose. Then on the
order of His Holiness was engaged for seven years in various
mortification and spiritual endeavor in such a way that sometimes he
would be ordered to shepherding, to pass through the levels of spiritual
stages and reach the apex of perfection and was honored to obtain the
permission to guide and inspire worshippers. And with the indication of
Sheikh Abdullah Yafe’ie returned to his habitual country. His Holiness
returned from Mecca by way of Transoxiana (Transoxiana is the Latin name
for the area corresponding with modern Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and
southwest Kazakhstan) to Iran and in the city of Sabz (a town in
Uzbekistan) near to Samarkand (Samarkand is a historical city in
Uzbekistan) stopped for some time and he completed multiple of forty
days in mortification in the mountains and in that region, a great
number of people extended their hand in sincerity and submitted to His
Holiness and had the honor of repenting and obtained instructions. It is
said that the number of sincere disciples of His Holiness in Central
Asia and west Khwarazm (Khwarazm - central and eastern Iran, Transoxania,
and much of Afghanistan) amounted to a hundred thousand. From this
aspect, few malicious and conceited such as Amir Kelal Bokhari who was
connected to the Naqshbandieh order proposed to Amir Tymur, sultan of
that time, that, if His Holiness with this large group who are devoted
to him, were to confront, there would be no opportunity to resist. Amir
Tymur came to meet His Holiness Shah and said: This land is not your
home country and it would be appropriate that you leave for some other
place. His Holiness meditated for some time and said, we will go, but
after eating bread and sweetmeat of Amir Kelal’s death. And it happened
exactly like that, because at the time of departure from Samarkand,
bread and sweetmeat for the death of Amir Kelal was brought. His
Holiness ate a morsel and departed. Anyway, His Holiness departed from
Samarkand and headed for Marv and from there went to Hazrat Reza’s Holy
Mashad, stayed forty days there and went towards Herat (city in western
Afghanistan) and in that country adhering to the tradition of the Holy
Prophet (PBUH) got married to the daughter of Mir Emad-e-din Hamzeh
Husseini. After stopover for a period of time, from Herat moved towards
his birth place, Kuhbanan and stayed there. In Kuhbanan, God the
Almighty bestowed him with an honorable son, Shah Khalilullah and after
seven years residing in Kuhbanan, he desired to see Yazd and towards
that direction journeyed and in Taft of Yazd stayed there and set forth
a plan to lay foundation of a Khaneghah and building, and constructed a
watermill and garden. After stopping over for a time in Taft, set out
for Kerman and from Kerman, one day for recreation visited the town of
Sarasiab near Mahan. It is said that an old woman brought bread and a
bowl of yogurt to His Holiness in simplicity and supplicated to His
Holiness to take up residence in Mahan, His Holiness accepted and till
the end of his life stayed there.

Those devoted and those who had found their way by his hands were out of
count, the Sheikhs and Elites who had understood his speech and from the
blessings of his holy breath benefitted were many, the names of a number
of them as his contemporaries will be mentioned. His Holiness has over
three hundred compilations and treatises on scientific, Gnostic and
literature in the Farsi and Arabic languages. Short and extended
literary works and divan of memorable poetry and delightful odes are
without any commendation and description. In an ode His Holiness points
out to himself in the opening verse, and begins with "I see the power of
God", lots of incidents and future news have been cited which is well
known and famous. His Holiness lived for more than hundred years and
seventy four years from it, sat on the throne of Caliphate and Guidance
independently and was engaged in the guidance and spiritual instructions
of relying worshippers and seekers of truth. In the year 834 Hijri (1431
AD) entrusted the caliphate to his noble son Seyed Borhan-e-din
Khalilullah and delegated the training of wayfarers and to supervise and
safe guard the khaneghah and disciples to him and passed away to the
world of eternity and in Mahan in the sacred shrine that is
circumambulated by mystics and dervishes was buried. “On him be the
mercy of God”.

Contemporary Luminaries of His Holiness from Sheikhs and Great Gnostics:

1) Mir Seyed Ali Hamedani

2) Khajeh Isthaq Khatlani

3) Pir Jamal-e-din Ardestani

4) Shah Qasem Anwar

5) Sheikh Sadr-e-din Ardebili

6) Khajeh Baha-e-din Naqshbandi

7) Khajeh Mohammad Parsa

8) Khajeh Abu Nasr Parsa

9) Moulana Nezam-e-din Khamoushi

10) Jalal-e-din Yousef Obahi

11) Khajeh Ala-e-din Chishti

12) Nour-e-din Hafez Abro

13) Seyed Mohammad Nourbaksh

14) Sheikh Zain-e-din Abubakr Khoafee

15) Seyed Nezam-e-din Mahmood called Dai-Allah

From Religious Authorities and Jurists

1) Abu Abdullah Shams-e-din Mohammad bin Makki, known as Sheikh Shahid
the first

8) Ahmad bin Mohammad bin Fahad Hilli compiler of "Odat-ul-Daiei" who is
a notable Shiite jurist and in his mysticism there is no doubt and
dispute.

From Sultans and Amirs

1) Amir Tymur Gokani and his son Shahrokh Mirza

From Poets and Theosophists

1) Baba Saudaie Abivardi

2) Shaikh Sharaf-e-din Ali Yazdi

3) Mohammad Shirin Maghrebi

4) Sheikh Abu Is'haq, known as Sheikh At'iameh

5) Mir Makhtoom Shirazi the poet

Since the mentioning of outstanding writings and statements of His
Holiness with discourses of truth, although with the existing
compilations and treatises of His Holiness, which includes all kinds of
subjects, instructions and advises is not required here to be mentioned
in this short biography, and this brief summary does not even have a
short account from the abundant sublime grandeur of His Holiness,
therefore to enter into this segment is refrained. The readers are asked
to refer to the compilations of His Holiness and only the mentioning of
a few generosities of His Holiness will suffice.

The most well known grace of His Holiness in all autobiographies is the
very same case mentioned about His Holiness and Amir Tymur, that
manifests the justification that
“If the world is full of blood, the Divine man would never eat except
legitimates”. That the details are as such, since the rush of people
to become sincere disciples of Hazrat Shah, and the general crowd who
wanted to repent and receive instructions, reached the ears of Amir
Tymur. From the great number of worshippers and desirous people who
visited His Holiness, Amir Tymur was concerned and scared, called His
Holiness to Herat. His Holiness according to the sultan’s call departed
for Herat and for some time there took up residence and as always he was
engaged in the propagation of external sciences and manifestations of
internal perfection and in guiding the people in this manner endeavored
to make great efforts, such as a group of Emirs of the sultan also
entered into the circle of devotion of His Holiness and prepared
themselves to be at His Holiness’s services and obtain instructions.
Although the sultan himself also frequently visited His Holiness and
from the blessings of being in his presence used to benefit,
nevertheless, due to magnanimity that His Holiness would manifest during
association with the sultan, a mist of displeasure had settled on the
mind of the sultan, and obviously the mist of displeasure resulted in
Amir Tymur asking His Holiness such a question in protest and pursued it
grudgingly, that one day during conversing with His Holiness remarked
that, although you are well known for divine guardianship, asceticism
and piety, how is it that I see with my government commanders and the
aristocrats of my clique you sit together and participate with them in
eating and drinking and eat suspicious morsels without doubt. His
Holiness in reply said with a smile:“If the world is full
of blood, the Divine man would never eat except legitimates”. Of
course, this answer did not convince the sultan and was not to his
approval, but rather prolonged the protest and assisted in pessimistic,
not only that, but was offended. From this visage the sultan thought of
testing His Holiness and secretly instructed his chief steward, that
tomorrow a lamb to be forcefully taken with injustice and cruelty from
an oppressed and weak and be cooked to make various meat dishes and
during lunch to place it on the spread food cloth (cloth which is spread
on the floor and on which food is served) and meanwhile requested Hazrat
Shah to have lunch with him. The chief steward did as he was told and
from a frail old woman took a lamb with force and gave it to the cook.
He cooked various meat dishes with the lamb and placed it on the spread
food cloth of the sultan. Since the sultan with Hazrat Shah Wali sat on
the spread food cloth, the sultan with humbleness offered respectfully
all kinds of cooked dishes with the aforesaid lamb to His Holiness. He
said “In the name of God” and with pleasure ate. After finishing lunch,
the sultan said: what is this state I saw, the food I know without doubt
is unlawful and without hesitation you ate it and knew it as lawful.
Then he explained the story of taking the lamb from the old woman in
detail. His Holiness said: it will be better that investigations and
scrutinizing be made in this matter so that, perhaps in this matter a
mystery is hidden. The sultan ordered that the old woman, the owner of
the lamb be brought to the gathering and asked her to explain the
details of the case. The old woman said: O! Sultan, I have a son, who had gone to Sarakhs
to extract rose water and I was for sometime without any news from him
and used to hear agitated and scary news from him. I made a vow that if
he returns safely I will take a lamb to Seyed Naimatullah which I had
supplicated in his name. Yesterday my son returned back safely and
according to my vow I was taking the lamb to Seyed when the sultan’s
servants with violence and force took the lamb away from me and brought
it to the sultan’s kitchen and ignored my crying and wailing. The sultan
on hearing this talk was ashamed and humiliated and from his felicitous
presence asked for pardon and to be forgiven. Then, the sultan gave
permission that His Holiness can return back to his home country.

And the other generosity of His Holiness, in the journey to Egypt with
few disciples goes to meet Mir Seyed Hussein Akhlati, when they reached
the vicinity of the location, Mir Hussein was aware and ordered the
attendants of his khaneghah that His Holiness Shah and his disciples to
be taken to a room nearby his own room and before Hazrat Shah’s entrance
sent a large dish of sweetmeats for His Holiness. His Holiness after
entering the room paused for a while and says it is better to go to
another place and went out of the room. Unexpectedly, the ceiling falls
down and everybody was perplexed. Seyed Hussein comes out of his room
and in a room overlooking the river Nile, meets His Holiness Shah in
private. Mir says I want to benefit from your disposition. His Holiness
Shah says, we also have the same request from you. Mir Seyed Hussein
from the bizarre science like alchemy and white magic and occult science
manifests the mysterious for His Holiness and opened the window which
was facing the river and manifested the river water in view of His
Holiness in several ways. Hazrat Shah said, I do not have such type of
conditions, my claim and litigation is for the alchemy of Mohammaden (S)
Faqr (dervish-hood). His Holiness comes out of the room and
returns back. After sometime His Holiness sends a sealed and stamped
package through a dervish for Seyed Hussein, when Seyed Hussein opens
the package, he sees some cotton and fire in the package and is amazed
and says, alas, I did not know the value of speaking to Naimatullah.
Secondly, the dervish who took the package for Seyed Hussein, on his way
it came to his mind that, I wish Hazrat Seyed for a few days would stop
over and discuss with Seyed Hussein, so that I would benefit from the
alchemy and be freed from poverty and neediness. Since the dervish had
to return to His Holiness, Hazrat Shah picked up a small stone from the
ground and tossed it to him, said: take this stone to a jeweler and
determine a price for it and bring it back to me. When that dervish took
the small stone to the jeweler, the jeweler saw a piece of ruby which he
had never seen in his life and priced it at 1000 Dirhams, the dervish
took back the stone and brought it back to Hazrat Shah, who ordered the
converted ruby stone to be pulverized and made a sherbet out of it and
gave each dervish to sip and taste it.

In Egypt His Holiness entered a shop where a seeker was resident by the
name of Baba Haj Ali and always in front of him a fire used to burn
without outside stimulation and from him numerous unusual states used to
be manifested and the people of Egypt used to have great faith in him.
His Holiness after having found the dervish, stayed hidden from him, was
aware of his state and since he again received attention from him, found
the attracted seeker fallen on his face and the fire had burned out and
turned to ashes. After a while the dervish returned back to
consciousness and gave his hand in sincerity to His Holiness and joined
the faithful and sincere, he was an attendant to His Holiness and after
death was buried near Mahan. And also it has been mentioned in the book
of Daneshwaran that His Holiness on a journey from Yazd via Bafq
to Kuhbanan, and when he reached Chareqader, he saw a caravan which had
camped there, when the caravan wanted to proceed, a group of highway
robbers who were lying in ambush, attacked the caravan and tied the
hands of all who were in the caravan. At that time their attention went
towards His Holiness and they wanted to seize him. His Holiness on
behalf of them looked harshly and glanced with fury, the robbers did not
make a move and the hands and feet of the people of the caravan were
untied. The people of the caravan brought the robbers with hands tied to
His Holiness. His Holiness out of affection counseled and guided the
robbers and reminded them of the shameful act and ordered to untie their
hands. The caravan passed safely from that place. The first stop of His
Holiness in Mahan, sultan Ahmad Shah Hindi who had full devotion to the
Sheikhs and illumined righteous of Tarigha heard the fame of excellence
and , reputation of His Holiness, sent a few religious authorities and
peace loving men with royal gifts and presents for His Holiness and
requested for blessings and begged for aspiration.

His Holiness took them under his favor on their return back dispatched
one of his nearest disciple named Molla Qutb-e-din Kermani with them to
Deccan and with him sent the 12 pieces green crown for Sultan Ahmad.
During the same days, Ahmad Shah in India was at war and dispute with an
enemy by the name of Pirouz Shah and had seen in a dream that someone
had given him the 12 pieces green crown. He said: This crown is
befitting a king which a secluded righteous and granter has sent this
for you. A few days had passed from this dream of Ahmad Shah when Molla
Qutb-e-din went to see the Shah (sultan Ahmad). As soon as the sultan’s
sight fell on him, said: this is the same person who brought the crown
for me in my dream, after which encountered him with kindness and
respect. Molla Qutb-e-din with the sultan’s permission took out the
crown given to him by Hazrat Shah Wali from the box so that he could
give it to the sultan, as soon as the eyes of the sultan fell on the
crown, said: this is the same crown, which was given to me in my dream
as a gift and he put it on his head with great respect. After sometime,
again sultan Ahmad Shah sent few elects nearest to him to Hazrat Shah
Wali and requested His Holiness to send one of his sons to India, so
that the sultan can benefit from the bounty of his presence and benefit
from seeing him. Hazrat Shah Wali since did not have a son except Shah
Khalilullah and could not bear the separation from His Excellency, sent
his grandson Shah Nourullah, son of Shah Khalilullah to India, who Ahmad
Shah gave a royal welcome and great deal of respect when he arrived in
Deccan and in every way placed His Excellency under his kindness and
generosity over all the sheikhs of Tarigha and nobles and government
dignitaries and endowed him with the title “Malik-ul-Mashayekh”
and finally was honored to accept him as his son-in-law and got his
dignified daughter married to him.

For His Holiness,
other numerous generosities have been mentioned in books and
biographies, which is out of the capacity of this biography. Therefore
let us suffice on this much and proceed to the biographies of the
remaining honorable Qutbs.